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Nursery Series: Growing Plants from CuttingsCome learn the secrets of cloning plants by cutting off branches and encouraging them to root! Meghan Steinharter (Fort Funston and Oceana Nurseries Manager) and Robin Binaoro (Marin Headlands Nursery Seed Ecologist) will discuss the science behind clonal propagation: what's going on inside the plant and how rooting hormones work. ...
Plants and insects communicate in numerous ways, and chemistry plays a key role in these communications. Natural compounds determine whether a plant is consumed by insects or avoided by them, or which insects may pollinate its flowers. Some insects have learned to use plant compounds as their own defenses, and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission, free for members
3D Human Brain Models and Nanoplatforms for Prognostics and Therapeutics of Neurological DisordersAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. However, no definitive cure for AD exists due to lack of limited model systems that accurately reflect AD-related immunity in human brains, nor for a drug development strategy for delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and assessment of drug efficacy ...
Transition metals have long been explored for the catalysis of reactions related to energy storage and conversion, as they possess both rich redox chemistry and the ability to bind and activate challenging small molecule substrates like dihydrogen and carbon dioxide. Recently, new approaches to small molecule activation featuring transition-metal-free systems ...
MAGC Conservation Series: Tam’s Wild Side Returns!After three years and four million images, the Marin Wildlife Picture Index Project is releasing its first findings. Get a glimpse of what we’re learning about our wild neighbors, and enjoy a reception with biologists, staff, and community scientists working to understand the health of Mt. Tam’s wildlife.
'Can Red Dwarf Stars Host Habitable Planets?'"Can Red Dwarf Stars Host Habitable Planets?" Dr. Gibor Basri - Professor at UC Berkeley. ABSTRACT -- Much recent news about exoplanets has concerned the discovery of earth-sized planets in the “habitable zone” of "red dwarf" stars. This is partly because such planets are more easily found around small stars, and partly ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
The Case of the Vanishing FirefishIf the firefish keep disappearing life as we know it on the planet will be destroyed! Ten-year-old Ayesha has courage, intelligence, creativity, and a complete lack of caution but the mission that Shekina Queen of the Seas has charged her with may be slightly out of her league. Cryptic clues involving Galileo, Gaudi’s Casa Battlo, theoretical physics, ...